Product Review

Are you going to eat Protein Bars? Great, me too. I follow a majority whole foods plant based diet but protein bars still carve out a niche. Convenience, fallback whilst travelling, sometimes nutritious, sometimes delicious! If you care about more than just the flavour which are the best gluten free & vegan protein bars though? To answer that read this Protein Bar Nutrition Comparison ...

Looking for gluten free Easter Eggs? Lots of them. Dairy Free or Vegan Easter Eggs? There are many of those too. How about Gluten Free Vegan Easter Eggs? Ah, now we have a real egg hunt challenge!
This is not a complete list of all the gluten free vegan Easter Eggs that might exist. These are special eggs. Two of the eggs are not only gluten free vegan but also nut free. One is genuinely sugar ...

Why eat Protein Bars? Food on the go? Post workout snack? Meal replacement? Faithful fallback whilst travelling? Convenience? Once you have your reasons to eat them which should choose? Which are tastiest? Which have the most protein and fibre to fill you up for longer? Which are packed with sugar? Which are best value? Which have real food ingredients?
Find the answers to all those questions ...

Treat Guiltfree Essentials are a little known craft producer of gluten free bake mixes. After celebrating the Ocado Free From own brand launch I feel the need to sing the virtues of this tiny enterprise and personally recommend their products. Products I will very happily incorporate into my regular gluten free, low carb healthy diet rather than treat as exceptional indulgences.
Treat Guiltfree ...

If you live within the delivery zone the Ocado gluten free range has for a long time made Ocado a great choice for grocery shopping for coeliacs and others avoiding gluten. As of January 2018 however, there is momentous news . . .
Ocado Free From Own Brand Launch!
Woohoo! Ocado have launched their own brand Free From Range! This includes own brand Ocado gluten free products and in fact all of ...

The Free From Food Awards 2018 are the thing you should follow for discovery of tremendous foods free from the things you do not want and full of the things you do. Gluten and other allergens go into that first bucket. Taste, texture, appearance, nutritional virtues and innovation fill the second.
I have the pleasure of being part of the judging team for the awards. The quantity of free from ...

Foodease are a tiny two person operation hand-crafting crackers, cookies and granola with extra special love. Their products are organic, gluten free, genuinely sugar free, low carb healthy fat (LCHF) and keto-friendly. The crackers and granola are dairy-free and the cookies available as a dairy-free option. Together with their free from credentials they are big on great flavour!
It was the ...

Vive Protein Bars are vegan, gluten free, soy free and free from refined sugars. They are bars designed for active, health conscious people who also expect pleasure from their food.
The protein bar market is however rather well served with other bars that can say the same. If bars could talk. Do Vive Bars bring something new? Yes they do! Two things in particular are welcome. First are some ...

Elizabeth D Bakes is a Great Taste Award winning London based artisan baker. Her American South inspired range of Brownies, Blondies, Breads & Cakes is 100% gluten free, often vegan and sometimes genuinely low sugar.
Together with 4 tough to please non gluten free, non vegan friends I sampled most of the Elizabeth D Bakes range. Spoiler alert! Elizabeth's bakes were some of the most ...

Rubys of London offers a very wide range of Gluten Free & Vegan baked delights. Gluten Free and Vegan bakes and baking have exploded in popularity, availability and quality in recent years. *Just* being gluten free and vegan is not enough to impress. We are not starved of delicious things. A great gluten free and vegan bake needs to be first of all GREAT then also gluten free and vegan.
Rubys ...

Naturbit is a craft, artisanal bakery with a fully gluten-free range also featuring many vegan options. Naturbit also offer bakes that are ‘Free 14’ meaning free from all 14 major allergens. No gluten, no dairy, no eggs, soy or nuts. Most important of course, none of that demon celery.
I sampled a lovely basket of Naturbit bakes for this taste test report. It was my *first* time tasting ...

I discovered MiiRO icecreams as a very lucky Free From Food Awards judge. They were cleverly scheduled at the end of a list of products to sample. If they had come first it just would not have been fair on everything else. When they were finally served the normally brief wait as samples got passed around the table appeared to take stretch on forever. Finally, I got to taste a MiiRO Salted Caramel ...

Best London food news of the year so far. Farmstand meals & snacks are now available from Planet Organic Stores. Why is this such a great thing? Start day-dreaming about food & read on.
I first reviewed Farmstand shortly after it opened in 2016 in Covent Garden, attracted simply because it was new and 100% gluten-free. It immediately became one of my favourite eateries in London. Since ...

I discovered the perkily named Mr Prempy’s at a Chocolate Festival and was immediately struck by their unusual product range. Raw, gluten-free and vegan. Cheekily named chocolate bars such as the ‘Bouncy’ (not a Bounty) and Ma’s (not a Mars). Cakes with names like ‘Gerald’ and ‘Victor’. Single origin fine chocolate bars.
Chocolate makers make chocolate. Chocolatiers take chocolate and use it ...

BakeIt Freefrom
bakeit freefrom is a small business offering something rather unique and special. Cake and Cupcake baking kits. Kits with absolutely *everything* you need to make a cake. Cake free from all 14 major allergens. No gluten, no milk, no eggs, no soy, no nuts. Suitable for coeliacs. Suitable for vegans. Suitable for home-bakers regardless of skill and confidence. Of course the killer ...